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Der ferne Spiegel : das dramatische 14. Jahrhundert by Barbara W. Tuchman; [Leicht gekürzte Ausgabe Übersetzung, Ulrich Leschak, Malte Friedrich] is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com Review In this sweeping historical narrative, Barbara Tuchman writes of the cataclysmic 14th century, when the energies of medieval Europe were devoted to fighting internecine wars and warding off the plague. Some medieval thinkers viewed these disasters as divine punishment for mortal wrongs; others, more practically, viewed them as opportunities to accumulate wealth and power. One of the latter, whose life informs much of Tuchman's book, was the French nobleman Enguerrand de Coucy, who enjoyed the opulence and elegance of the courtly tradition while ruthlessly exploiting the peasants under his thrall. Tuchman looks into such events as the Hundred Years War, the collapse of the medieval church, and the rise of various heresies, pogroms, and other events that caused medieval Europeans to wonder what they had done to deserve such horrors.

Author

Barbara W. Tuchman; [Leicht gekürzte Ausgabe Übersetzung, Ulrich Leschak, Malte Friedrich]

Publisher

Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag

Published

1983

Language

DE

ISBN

9783546491877

Subjects

History, Humanities